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Now that she has her own room, Yu Hongdou doesn't want to be a wallflower anymore.

She planned to live alone from today on, but Xu disagreed.

"You are still young, and I am worried about your second uncle's house not being built yet." Mrs. Xu was afraid that her daughter would wake up in the middle of the night with fright.

"It's okay, mother. My second uncle and second brother are watching the yard nearby. They will naturally hear any noise." Yu Hongdou never mentioned matters, big or small, and only addressed safety issues.

Mrs. Xu couldn't convince her daughter, so she looked at her son and signaled him to persuade her daughter.

Yu Song smiled and shook his head: "Mom, let her live by herself. When I was her age, I also wanted to live in a house of my own."

If this little rascal is not sent away, how will their parents give them brothers and sisters?

"I'll just listen at night. Hongdou has Wangwang at her place, and Second Uncle and the others are next door. It's okay." Yu Song was not talking nonsense. There was no need to worry about safety issues for the time being.

Xu never said anything about her daughter, but she didn't expect that her son had been instigated to rebel. She glared at her son in reproach and ordered him to heat the kang for her daughter.

"Mom, the weather is getting warmer and I want to sleep in bed." Yu Hongdou refused.

It's almost the beginning of summer. Even though there's a big temperature difference between morning and evening in the mountain village, you won't feel cold if you cover yourself with a quilt.

Xu hesitated for a moment and then agreed. If the kang is not heated for two days, it will become damp. It is not that cold to sleep on the bed in this weather. At most, she can use a hot water bottle to warm the quilt before sleeping.

So not only Yu Hongdou, but Xu also moved her and Yu Sanlang's bedding to the bed, and told Yu Song to do the same. The family moved directly to the bed, saving time and trouble by heating the kang.

After a busy day, the family of four slept soundly until dawn.

Yu Hongdou woke up to the sound of Wangwang humming. Although the puppy Wangwang looks silly, he is actually very smart. Now he has developed a good habit of going to the toilet every day.

Yu Hongdou got up and let Wangwang out first. She dressed herself, wiped her face casually, and ran with Wangwang from the front door to her uncle's house, and then ran back.

Walking the dog can also strengthen the body. Yu Hongdou's eloquent words made Yu Song laugh.

After running two laps with his sister for fun, Yu Song, who had loosened his muscles, began to do horse stance and boxing in the yard.

Last time, when he heard that the three pampered sons of the Tan family all had good martial arts skills, Yu Song became interested.

After observation, he found that even the frail-looking senior brother could exchange a few moves with the guards, so he asked his teacher and senior brothers to learn a set of boxing from the guards.

After exercising, Yu Hongdou came back to admire her brother who was practicing boxing and her father who was performing the whale-like spitting water and brushing his teeth, then turned around and went to the kitchen to help her mother cook.

"Mom, after we clean up the room today, shouldn't we plant some vegetables? I see that the vegetables at grandpa's house are growing."

"And the chicks need to be taken back. Do we raise ducks at home? They're a bit smelly." Yu Hongdou kept chattering behind her mother.

"Okay, little housekeeper, you don't have to worry about these. Go wash your hands and have an meal!" Why is this child so worrying? Xu had no choice but to send her away.

Yu Hongdou, who was eager to contribute to the new home, was sent away by her mother and then looked down upon by her brother who was cleaning the yard. She stomped her feet in anger and suddenly remembered what she should do while washing her hands.

Her sapodilla soap!

With a goal, Yu Hongdou found something to do.

After dinner, she ran back to her room and started rummaging through her luggage.

When the market was in a frenzy, the small red clay stove was fine, and a few pottery pieces were broken, but at least there were still a few left. Together with the ones that Yu Sanlang had given him when he bought the jar, they were enough for Yu Hongdou to use.

Yu Hongdou took out her treasured soap beans. Due to the dry weather, many of them had been crushed into foam. But that didn't matter. They were best used if they were crushed.

Yu Hongdou learned how to make saponin soap from a survival game.

I originally thought it was a made-up game, but then I saw on a certain website that a lifestyle blogger I follow actually used this recipe to make soap. So I believed it and remembered the recipe deeply.

In the game, she needs to make soap to keep her body clean, otherwise it will affect the other three major values. At the same time, soap can also be used to make pesticides to protect the farmland in the game.

Yu Hongdou planned to try to make some using her small red clay stove first. If successful, she would then expand production using the iron pots at home.

The first step is to smash the soap beans and boil them in a pot.

There was a stone pestle and mortar at home, but it seemed to be still in the old house. Yu Hongdou was too lazy to go there and just broke the fruits with her hands.

The sharp clicking sound is refreshing, but it is a bit laborious.

She spent the whole morning on the first step alone, so it’s better to be busy and fulfilled.

After putting the soap bean crumbs into a clay pot and asking her brother to help light a charcoal fire, Yu Hongdou ran to the stove to dig out wood ash, preparing for the second step of making soap.

The second step is to extract alkali solution from wood ash.

Yu Song helped his parents tidy up the yard and fill the water tank at home. His parents, one went to the old house to continue the aftermath and collect the remaining items, while the other went to the village chief's house to see the ginger seeds being divided into plots.

He planned to go to the backyard to weed and prepare ridges in the evening, plant the vegetables early tomorrow morning, and then return to the county town.

At this moment, Bento is playing house with his sister and working with her.

With a laborer, Yu Hongdou's job was much easier. She directed her brother to take the boiled soapberry water off the clay stove and put another earthenware jar filled with wood ash on it.

I found a ramie summer shirt I wore when I was a child, cut it open, and filtered the warm soap water.

After completing this step, the wood ash water is boiled. After filtering, all you have to do is wait for it to cool and settle.

It was at this moment that Xu came in. She was carrying a backpack and holding a willow basket in her hands. From time to time, chirping sounds could be heard from the basket, and one could tell what was inside by just listening.

"Mom, why didn't you ask us to join you?" Yu Song hurried forward to respond.

"It's okay, I can carry it. It was just a coincidence. I was planning to get the chicken in the afternoon, but Aunt Gao said she was going out in the afternoon, so I brought it back." Xu put the things down and took a breath.

Yu Song carried the basket of chicks and placed it next to the barn. He found that the chicken coop had not been built yet, so he hurried to find tools and materials to build one.

Yu Hongdou peeked into the basket and looked at the fluffy chicks inside. She then told Wangwang, who was also peeked into the basket, “Wangwang, we don’t like eating them.”

"Awoof!" Wangwang responded with a crisp call, but it was unclear whether he wanted to eat or not.

The wood ash separated into layers after being left to stand for a while, and Yu Hongdou continued to work on her sapodilla soap.

The third step is to mix the wood ash alkali solution with the soapberry liquid.

Although Yu Hongdou remembered the recipe, she didn't remember the specific proportions. She tried it with the attitude that success was just luck. Anyway, she had nothing to do, so she could try a few more times.

Step 4: Pour the mixture into the oil and mix.

Yu Hongdou remembered that the lifestyle blogger used several kinds of oil at that time, but she didn’t know if she would ever come across palm oil or coconut oil in her lifetime, so she chose tea oil mixed with a little bit of lard.

Anyway, as long as the mixture and oil are blended into a thick paste, it will basically work.

She stirred it with a brand new bamboo brush and actually managed to turn it into a basin of soap paste.

She divided the soap batter into two bowls, adding crushed dried mint leaves to one bowl and dried flower petals to the other.

I didn’t have time to make the essential oils, so I’ll just have to make do with what I have for now.

Everything was ready. Yu Hongdou was very surprised and was about to make a mold, but suddenly she found that she didn't have a mold...

Fortunately, there was no shortage of wooden boxes at home, and she soon found an empty four-compartment wooden box.

Yu Hongdou poured the soap paste into four grids respectively, and considerately pasted dried mint leaves and dried flower petals on the soap paste containing different plant powders to distinguish them.

"Now just wait for it to dry!" Yu Hongdou excitedly held the wooden box and walked around the yard twice, then found a cool place to put it. If all went well, she would have soap to use tomorrow morning!

Of the four pieces, she could give one to her mother, one to her aunt, and keep two for herself.

Use the mint one in the morning and the dried flower one at night, perfect!

Yu Hongdou had her plan all right, but the next day, her box was empty, not a single piece was left.